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Soft Power Desire Machines and the Production of Africa Rising

By on 19 March 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

      Alongside texts by Jesse Weaver Shipley, Moses März and Oribhabor […]

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Pan Africanism in Katanga

By on 19 March 2015 in Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

In the margins of a specific history, in which land and inhabitants […]

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All That is Solid Melts into PR

By on 19 March 2015 in Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

Mark Fisher speaks to Bongani Kona about the social, economic and cultural totality of late capitalism, the pervasive cynicism in which we seem to be mired, the omnipresence of PR and the possibility of countering it all by re-igniting a belief in the public good.

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Operation Protective Edge

By on 19 March 2015 in Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

by  Paul Wessels. The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of […]

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Licking Dirty Hands

By on 19 March 2015 in Books & Oration, Systems of Governance

by David Shook. In the tradition of German poet Heimrad Bäcker, who turned […]

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Undoing the Spell

By on 19 March 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

by Ben Verghese. Many of the dominant narratives of the partition focus on […]

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Men and their Dogs

By on 19 March 2015 in Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

by Gwen Ansell. Leonardo Padura is perhaps best known outside his native Cuba […]

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Miniature Metamorphoses

By on 19 March 2015 in Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

by André Naffis-Sahely. In his dotage, Henry Kissinger has come to resemble Emperor […]

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Shooting From Point Blank Range

By on 19 March 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

Moses Serubiri turns on the television and watches the news unfold, in […]

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Beneath the Underdog

By on 19 March 2015 in Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

Fighter, soldier, poet, arguably the PR-unit and embodiment of the Economic Freedom […]

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Life After Oil

By on 19 March 2015 in Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Systems of Governance

Jeremy Weate explores the cultural politics of the petro-based economy in Nigeria, […]

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After Oil Water

By on 18 March 2015 in Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Maps, Systems of Governance

  This features in the new Chronic, an edition in which we […]

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African War Machines

By on 18 March 2015 in Archive, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

    This map features in the new Chronic, an edition in which […]

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A Brief History of Mapping

By on 18 March 2015 in Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

by Stacy Hardy. In 1921, the independent Polish scholar Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski […]

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The Internet is Afropolitan

By on 17 March 2015 in Cash & Commerce, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

Achille Mbembe discusses the history and horizon of digital communication and identity […]

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Yambo Ouloguem: Postcolonial Writer, Anti-Wahhabist Militant

By on 15 March 2015 in Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

Christopher Wise recalls conversations and texts of the Malian author, whose deep […]

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How Close Are You To This Place?

By on 12 March 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Systems of Governance

by Karen Press. Where is the heart of darkness? We think we know. It’s […]

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The Chronic – mapping the new – soon come

By on 3 February 2015 in Books & Oration, Chronic, News, Systems of Governance

“In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the […]

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What Follows? The State of Black Collectivity in the Year of the Sheep

By on 20 January 2015 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

Continuing to sing a vital and urgent message of black collectivity, Harmony Holiday writes from […]

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The African Renaissance Hoer-o-scope for Politicians

By on 8 January 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Systems of Governance

by Zebulon Dread ARIES Your best bet at survival is not a […]

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The Alternative is at Hand

By on 6 January 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

Working within the black radical tradition, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney frame a […]

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Beyond Oppression-Liberation-Maendeleo

By on 16 December 2014 in Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

by Parselelo Kantai It may have been the economist David Ndii who coined […]

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Propaganda and Politics tunnel vision history of art activism in South Africa

By on 9 December 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

The important contribution of the Black Consciousness Movement to art activism in […]

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The G.Spot Protagonists

By on 19 November 2014 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

by Goddy Leye I am sitting in front of the Cologne cathedral, amazed by […]

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Philatelic Pan Africanism

By on 4 November 2014 in Arts & Pedagogy, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

The Otolith Group, founded by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun in 2002, uses […]

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How Kenya Exploded In My Heart

By on 13 October 2014 in Books & Oration, Systems of Governance

A letter from Harare by Petina Gappah   I once lived in a […]

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XXYX Africa

By on 1 October 2014 in Books & Oration, Chronic, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

LGBT Africa held two truths: you fuck, you die.

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Buru Buru

By on 23 September 2014 in Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Systems of Governance

Billy Kahora reflects on the state of the ‘estate’ of his Nairobi […]

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Palestine Journey

By on 22 August 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Systems of Governance

In February 2005, Ishtiyaq Shukri’s novel The Silent Minaret, won the first European […]

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L’impossible n’est pas Camerounais!

By on 5 August 2014 in Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

Kangsen Feka Wakai traces personal lineage, and the often blurred and disputed […]

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CHIMURENGA@20: BEASTS OF NO NATION

By on 5 August 2014 in Chronic, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

Whether immigrating, emigrating or just passing through, Africans suffer among the greatest indignities of cross-border travel, abroad and on the continent. Paula Akugizibwe recounts how the hand-me-down tools of divide and rule perpetuate the abuse.

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The cosmic lives and afterlives of Zebulon Dread

By on 13 July 2014 in Archive, Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

byAchal Prabhala Part 1: Elliot Josephs Elliot Josephs was born in 1958 […]

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Obi’s Nightmare

By on 2 July 2014 in Archive, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

by Jamón y Queso translated by David Shook         […]

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It’s only a matter of acceleration now

By on 1 July 2014 in Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

This is how the earth is arranged, or this is how the kora arranged and made the universe, and songs of numbers and words made souls…. Are you ready to interview Youssou N’Dour?

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Not only our land but also our souls

By on 12 May 2014 in Archive, Featured, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

Andile Mngxitama challenges historical and contemporary rhetoric that positions land theft in […]

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The End of Elections

By on 12 May 2014 in Archive, Books & Oration, Systems of Governance

by Paula Akugizibwe   Jose Saramago’s Seeing is no Arab spring. Revolutionary […]

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A Brief History of Throwing Shit

By on 9 May 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

by Rustum Kozain.  Shit, muck, drek, kak. Faecal matter. We humans have a […]

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“Nice Nice” Will Get You Nowhere

By on 8 May 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Systems of Governance

Boniface Mwangi is a Kenyan photographer who pulls no punches in using […]

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A Brief History of Presidential Libraries

By on 8 May 2014 in Archive, Books & Oration, Systems of Governance

by Stacy Hardy Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire and George Pompidou were friends […]

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Will the Centre Hold?

By on 8 May 2014 in Archive, Faith & Ideology, Systems of Governance

In South Africa’s platinum belt, life and politics are as hard-scrabble as […]

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Method After Fela

By on 6 February 2014 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

by Akin Adesokan   “You reckon a guy just goes and cuts […]

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Fifty Years Of African Decolonisation

By on 5 February 2014 in Archive, Systems of Governance

by Achille Mbembe (translated by Karen Press)   Here we are in 2010, fifty […]

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The skin I’m in: Afro-Bengali solidarity and possible futures

By on 21 December 2013 in Books & Oration, Systems of Governance

Naeem Mohaiemen reviews Vivek Bald’s Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of […]

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‘Nation Is A Skin Stretched Over The Bones Of The State’

By on 21 December 2013 in Archive, Faith & Ideology, Systems of Governance

Jon Soske struggles to pin down Hamid Parsani, the elusive, mercurial Iranian archaeologist, […]

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A Letter from Home

By on 21 December 2013 in Archive, Cash & Commerce, Faith & Ideology, Systems of Governance

by E. C. Osondu   My Dear Son, Why have you not been […]

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Number 11

By on 20 December 2013 in Books & Oration, Systems of Governance

Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño muses on writing, borders, Latin American literature and the […]

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Birthing the American

By on 20 December 2013 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Systems of Governance

Yemisi Aribisala explores, with mixed emotions, the enduring opportunism of a Nigerian elite that ensures that generations of children claim US birthright. Despite the assumed status that goes with being born “abroad”, the American dream, she argues, is in fact only a Nigerian backup plan.

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A Corpse and its Jurisdiction – a letter from Lagos

By on 8 October 2013 in Archive, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

Akin Adesokan tropes on the detective genre after he stumbles on an […]

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When We Hear the Name of President

By on 7 October 2013 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Systems of Governance

Nigerian poet Tanure Ojaide evokes a language of high stakes, hi-jinx, and […]

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George Osodi

By on 4 October 2013 in Archive, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

George Osodi is a photographer from “the oil-rich Niger Delta region”. His images […]

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Interactions: A Strategy of Difference and Repetition

By on 21 August 2013 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Cash & Commerce, Systems of Governance

Interactions Interactions is an edited excerpt from filmmaker, writer and artist Aryan […]

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The First Lady Syndrome

By on 21 August 2013 in Archive, Cash & Commerce, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

Mama Chantal Biya Yves Mintoogue* traces the nepotism and political patronage that […]

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Manufacturing the post-election peace: A reporter’s 2013 election diary

By on 21 August 2013 in Archive, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

Parselelo Kantai watches as NGOs, the media and the state rally together […]

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A Civil Society Of African States

By on 21 August 2013 in Archive, Systems of Governance

Paula Akugizibwe assumes observer status at the African Union and finds the […]

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The Chronic (August 2013)

By on 6 August 2013 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance


This print edition is a 48-page broadsheet, packaged together with the 72-page Chronic Books supplement.

Writers in the broadsheet include Jon Soske, Paula Akugizibwe, Yves Mintoogue, Adewale Maja-Pearce, Parsalelo Kantai, Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, Cedric Vincent, Deji Toye, Derin Ajao, Tony Mochama, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah,Agri Ismaïl, Lindokuhle Nkosi, Bongani Kona,  Stacy Hardy, Emmanuel Induma, Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, Lolade Ayewudi, Simon Kuper and many others.

The  Chronic Books supplement is a self help guide on reading and writing, with contributions by Dave Mckenzie, Akin Adekosan, Fiston Nasser Mwanza, Yemisi Ogbe, Vivek Nyarangan, Peter Enahoro, Tolu Ogunlesi, Elnathan John,Rustum Kozain, Olufemi Terry, Aryan Kaganof, Rustum Kozain, Harmony Holiday, Sean O’Toole, Gwen Ansell,Binyavanga Wainaina and more.

To purchase in print or as a PDF head to our online shop,or get copies from your nearest dealer.

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Death by Memory [of Freedom]; Truth & Reconciliation

By on 5 August 2013 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

A tryptych in honour of Steve Biko. Firstly, Graeme Arendse, as his alter-ego Ramgee, presents In […]

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America Will Always Blame…

By on 5 August 2013 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Systems of Governance

Rigo 23, born Ricardo Gouveia, is a Portuguese muralist, painter, and political […]

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Who’s Free, Who’s Not, Who Was, Who Wasn’t, and Who’s Dead: And, Are You Sure You Know Which Way Is Up?

By on 4 August 2013 in Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

A Letter from Istanbul by Ed Pavlic   Trayvon remains underground, to my […]

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Suspect Sammy

By on 4 August 2013 in Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

A Letter from Toronto by Andrea Meeson It’s another Monday morning after another […]

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Memento Mori

By on 4 August 2013 in Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

A Letter from Harlem by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts. When I came home from abroad, […]

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Three Men, A Fence & A Dead Body

By on 9 July 2013 in Archive, Cash & Commerce, Systems of Governance

Sean O’Toole travels to the northern reaches of Limpopo where South Africa […]

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A Fieldguide for Female Interrogators

By on 2 June 2013 in Archive, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

by Coco Fusco (illustrations: Dan Turner)     This graphic story previously […]

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The Way Back Home Article

By on 1 June 2013 in Archive, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

The Way Back Home On the death of a close relative, Niq […]

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Graveyards, monuments and African Studies

By on 10 May 2013 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Systems of Governance

by Nicole Sarmiento. “I have argued that the problem with this course is […]

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Achebe The Native Intellectual

By on 18 April 2013 in Archive, Books & Oration, Systems of Governance

There Was A Country, Chinua Achebe’s autobiographical account of the Nigerian Civil […]

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Is Biko’s legacy being besmirched?

By on 8 April 2013 in Archive, Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

In October 2002, 25 years since Stephen Bantu Biko‘s death, poet James Matthews penned […]

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Diary Of A Bad Year

By on 5 April 2013 in Archive, Books & Oration, Systems of Governance

Diary Of A Bad Year: President Mbeki’s Letters to the Nation by […]

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Walking through walls

By on 25 March 2013 in Archive, Systems of Governance

Eyal Weizman reports on military tactics known as ‘walking through walls’ where […]

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When history is suspended

By on 25 March 2013 in Archive, Faith & Ideology, Systems of Governance

(In memory of Ernesto Alfabeto Nhamuave) by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa  I […]

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EU fortifies its mission on North African frontline

By on 22 March 2013 in Archive, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

Supported by Libya and Tunisia, the European Union is ringing the Mediterranean […]

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La Frontera

By on 20 March 2013 in Archive, Cash & Commerce, Systems of Governance

Klas Lundström finds himself in an isolated corner of the Amazon jungle […]

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Uncertainty in Cuba after the Death of Hugo Chávez

By on 13 March 2013 in Archive, Cash & Commerce, Systems of Governance

As the world bids adiós to Hugo Chávez, Ivan García (of Desde La Habana) reports on […]

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The Death of Jacob Dlamini

By on 13 March 2013 in Archive, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

Political analyst, Jacob Dlamini, argues that the death of another so named […]

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The Test

By on 9 March 2013 in Archive, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

  Read the following text carefully: “Know thyself, thus says the quotation […]

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Chicken Core: The Rise of Kings

By on 9 March 2013 in Archive, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

SporeDust is a young animation studio, still a rare species in the […]

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The Adventures of Dr Evil in Dakar

By on 9 March 2013 in Archive, Arts & Pedagogy, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

  President Abdoulaye Wade recently claimed intellectual property rights of the “African […]

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Not Yet Uhuru

By on 9 March 2013 in Archive, Systems of Governance

Ugandan journalist and activist, Kalundi Serumaga, reflects on his time as a political […]

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The Warm Up

By on 9 March 2013 in Archive, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

The xenophobic violence sweeping many communities in the past weeks is not […]

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Les Saignantes

By on 1 March 2013 in Arts & Pedagogy, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

          A young woman, beautiful, 20-something, is fucking […]

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The Quiet Encroachment of the Ordinary

By on 15 February 2013 in Cash & Commerce, Systems of Governance

Asef Bayat A traveller to Middle Eastern cities, Tehran, Cairo or Rabat […]

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A New Consciousness

By on 13 February 2013 in Systems of Governance

Itumeleng oa Mahabane   A man walks down a street. His shoulders […]

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France’s war for uranium

By on 13 February 2013 in Systems of Governance

Carlos Latuff

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Evidence

By on 13 February 2013 in Arts & Pedagogy, Systems of Governance

Brent Hayes Edwards The cell is four meters long and two meters […]

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Juba ‘I will make my life here’

By on 13 February 2013 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Magazine, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

The metronomes of ancient history, the legacy of war, the wavering prosperity of peace, impending independence and inter-ethnic tensions beat the rhythms of Juba – the new capital of Southern Sudan. Billy Kahora reports.

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Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée

By on 8 December 2010 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance

Norbert N. Ouendji interviews Achille Mbembe before Afropolitanism (circa 2010) « Sortir de […]

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